Car-coupling



(No Model.) S. E. DAVIDSON..

CAR GOUPLING.:

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PATEN imion,

SARAI-I ELIZABETH DAVIDSON, OF GLASGOIV, KENTUOKY.

CAR-'COUPLING.

PCIFCA'I'ION orming part; of Letters Patent No. 385,598, dated July 3, 1888.

Application filed March 30, 1888.

T0 all wfwm it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH ELIZABETH D- viDsoN,a citizen of the United States, residing at Glasgow, in the county of Barrcn and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in car-couplings,being more particularlyadaptcd to freight and baggage cars; and it eonsistsin the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the appended elaims.

In the dra-wings, Figure l is a perspective view of the end of a car having a coupler embodying the invention atiached. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the end of a car having a draw-head, B, of ordinary construction attaehed.

C is the pin, having a head, c, preferably spherical, and having a metallie'cap-pieee, D, swiveled on its upper end and exnbracing the head. To the Vertical extension (Z of the cappiece the chain E' is attaehed by any secure means, the upper end of which chain is engaged to the hooked outer end, 8/, of the outstanding arin c of the lever E, which is pivoted at c2 to the end of the car near one side, and has its inner` arm held to the end of the car by the Vertical guide-braeket ei, the ends of which are sccured at proper points to the end of the car. The outer arm of said lever extends beyond the side of the car, and its end is forincd into a suitable handle for the use of the brakeman. Secured to the end of the car a suitable distance vertically above the draw-head is the reversed-U-shaped spring F, the outer arm of which is free, the inner arm being firmly seeured by any suitable means, such as bolts.

G is an iron stirrup depending from the end of the free arm of the spring, and consisting of the upper yoke-shaped portion, I-I, having the depending arms h,and the lnetallie plate I, having a central seat, for the link, and the upstandng arms i. All parts of the stirrup are integral. The spring is intcnded to hold Serial No. 268,972. (No model.)

the seat-plate in such position that it will rest about under the middle of the link and hold the same horizontal, so that when two cars come together the said link will enter the opposite draw-head.

In raising the pin the inner arm of thelever Strikes against the upper part of the guidebracket and the pin is thereby1'n'evented from being lifted from the drawdiead.

In coupling, the brakenian, when the car with the link approaehes, lifts the pin of the opposite car by the described n1cans,and when the link has entered lowers it again, engaging the link. The seatplatc will be driven by the impact against the draw -head; but the spring will again return it to its former position.

Having described niy invention, I claiml. In a car-coupler, the combination, with the draw'head, the link, and the pin, of the reversed-U-shaped spring` secured to the car end a suitable distance vcrtically above the draw-head, and the stirrup secured to the free arm of said spring and consisting of the yoke and the metallic seat-plate, substantially as specified.

2. In a car-conpler, the combination, with the draw-head, the link, the pin, and the pivoted lever connected by a chain to said pin,of the reversed- U-shaped spring and the stirrup secured to the end of the free arm of the spring, snbstantially as specified.

3. The herein-described car-coupling, conv sisting ofthe draw-head, the pin O, having the cap-piece D, the link J, the pivotcd lever E, having the outstanding arm c, the chain E', connecting said arm and the Cap-piece D, the reversed-U-shaped spring, and the stirrup G, eonsisting of the yoke H and the seat-plate I, substantially as specified.

In testiinonythat I claiin the foregoing as my own I have hereto a'ffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAR-AH ELIZABETH DAVIDSON.

Y'Vitnesses:

J. L. WRIGHT, S. P. JnwnLL. i 

